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Role of climate change awareness in sustainable soil nutrient management by smallholder farms in Burkina Faso
Climate change effects are threats to the livelihood of Sub-Saharan smallholder farms. Farmers’
response and readiness to take adaptive measures depend on how they perceive (perception) and
moreover understand and recognize ...
Agricultural Livelihood Systems (ALS) typology of grain legumes and dry cereals – based smallholder farming systems in Western Burkina Faso
Efficiently improving sub-Saharan smallholder farms’ livelihood requires targeted policy intervention accounting for their livelihood heterogeneity. The main objective of the present study was to empirically identifying ...
Agricultural livelihood systems typology for coping with diversity in smallholder farming system research: A demonstrative case in South-western Burkina Faso
Smallholder farms’ populations are characterized by their heterogeneity giving the diversity of farms’ livelihood settings. Integrated farming system modelling therefore requires a preliminary clear identification of the ...
Multi-stakeholder Workshop Report on Criteria and Indicators for Sustainability of Agricultural Livelihood Systems: Stakeholders' Perspectives
The workshop was initiated in the frame of the Project GLDC-FP3: Integrated Farm-Household
Management under the Activity 3.3.6: Criteria & Indicators of ALS Sustainability. This
workshop aimed the farmer’s self-exploration ...
Survey Questionnaire for Gender-responsive Farm-household Typologies, Innovation Adoptions, Impacts of Legume-based Technological Interventions on Small Holder Production and Livelihood Performance in Millet-Sorghum-Cowpea Zones in south-western Burkina Faso
This document is the survey questionnaire for gender-responsive farm-household typologies, innovation adoptions, impacts of legume-based technological Interventions on small holder production and livelihood performance in ...
Analysis of socio-ecological determinants for adoption of legume-cereals intercropping and improved seeds uses in the face of agricultural livelihood diversity in Satiri sub-district, Houet province, Burkina Faso
Following the identification of the different agricultural livelihoods systems (ALS) type in the Satiri sub-district, western Burkina Faso, the presented study aims at assessing behaviour of these different ALS types in ...
Nutrient flow modelling for assessing the resource criticality of heterogeneous agricultural systems: A case study in Southwestern Burkina Faso
Despite the many advantages of sustainable intensification (SI), the level of adoption of SI practices in African smallholding farms is still very low, posing the need for adequate methods for monitoring farm sustainability. ...
The role of responsive heterogeneity in sub-Saharan smallholder farming sustainability: socio-economic and biophysical determinants of mineral and organic fertilizers used in South Western Burkina Faso
Sustainable soil nutrient management (SNM) is important for improving soil resources and food security in sub-Saharan African countries. Inherent livelihood diversity may lead to differences in household behavior in the ...
Report on the Workshop for Consolidating Curriculum of the New Master-level Subject Titled “Integrated Methods for Analysis and Assessment of Agricultural Livelihood Systems Toward Sustainability”
This report recaps and overviews the result of the participatory consolidation of the Curriculum of the New Master-level Subject Titled “Integrated Methods for Analysis and Assessment of Agricultural Livelihood Systems ...
Farm level production efficiencies and their drivers in cereal-based heterogeneous smallholder systems in western Burkina Faso
The present study analysed farm level crop production efficiency for cereal-oriented agricultural livelihood system (ALS) types in the Satiri sub-district, western Burkina Faso. The typological results of a previous study ...